Together Richard and Colin have worked on the Green New
Deal, the promotion of local authority bonds and pension reform, all with the
objective of releasing funding for green investment in the UK.

Financial support for the research undertaken by Finance
for the Future is supplied by the Network for Social Change, the Joseph
Rowntree Charitable Trust.

Research papers

Finance for the Future has published two major papers
during 2010:

Cuts: the callous con trick.A briefing by Richard Murphy,
Caroline Lucas MP and Colin Hines on why the ConDem coalition’s programme of
cuts is not needed that sets out a viable alternative.

Making Pensions Work.A briefing by Richard Murphy and Colin Hines on why at
present all pensions in the UK are effectively paid by the state and why our
pension system and the conditions for the tax reform that they enjoy must be
reformed as a consequence. Discussion of this report can be found here.

Making quantitative easing green.A paper by Richard Murphy and Colin Hines exploring
the whole issue of quantitative easing and suggesting that because the first
round of quantitative easing was captured for the benefit of the finance
industry any new round must be very different with cash being spent into the
economy to create a Green New Deal nationally and locally, with the only debt
to be repurchased being PFI debt, to remove once and for all the legacy of that
appalling system of finance.